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Education staff wellbeing and workload: ‘Causing concern’ in the proposed Ofsted inspection toolkits

We, like many of you, have been very interested in Ofsted’s current consultation on proposed changes to their inspections in England, following the biggest consultation Ofsted has ever...

BERA Bites, issue 12: Education and the environment

BERA Bites

Today, in 2025, as an Earthly community, we face the ongoing triple planetary crises of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Across the UK, and in many other...

School health and wellbeing, and national education system reform in Wales

The Curriculum for Wales prioritises young people’s health and wellbeing, with a strategic aim for all children in Wales to be healthy and confident individuals. Following national roll-out,...

Reframing health and wellbeing in schools: As pedagogy and as teacher identity

Since the publication of WHO guidance in 1998, policymakers around the world have sought to include health promotion within education, with schools in many countries now taking a Health Promoting...

10 years of the BERA Blog

This series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark this...

What do we know about widening participation at universities in Scotland: And why does it matter?

‘Widening participation’ (WP) or ‘fair access’ is a flagship initiative of the Scottish government and overseen by a Commissioner for Fair Access in Scotland, with a stated aim that ‘by...

Facilitating happy connections: Understanding GenAI’s links with social connectedness and mental wellbeing

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Introduction The rapid emergence of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT has already transformed the landscape of higher education (HE), offering learners resources to...

Mental Health, Wellbeing & Education – Call for SIG Convenor 2025-2028

The Mental Health, Wellbeing and Education SIG (launched in 2018) provides a dynamic and inclusive forum for academics, practitioners, researchers, students, and others passionate about education....

Maths homework doesn’t have to end in tears: There is another way

Parental engagement in a child’s education is associated with improved academic outcomes at all ages (EEF, 2018). However, with mathematics, this engagement mostly takes the form of homework...

From hospital halls to school walls: Raising awareness about the impact of a cancer diagnosis on a child’s educational journey

A national average of 1,645 cancer cases among 0-to-14-year-old children and 2,110 cases among 15-to-24-year-old teenagers and young adults are reported annually in the United Kingdom, with a...

World Mental Health Day 2024

Thursday, 10th October is World Mental Health Day. Mental illness affects an estimated 950 million people worldwide, and is the leading cause of disability across all age groups.  BERA...

BERA and the Kusuma Trust: Neurodiversity in mainstream schools grant programme

BERA is partnering with the Kusuma Trust to deliver several research projects with the aim to improve the school experience and academic attainment of young people who are neurodivergent. The...